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NASA Contest To Name ISS Module
Solarch writes "NASA is holding a contest to name ISS Node 3. Being a Browncoat myself, I should hope that the choice of names would be obvious. As of the 7:30 PM EST on 2/25, the name Serenity has over 80% of the vote. From the site: 'Node 3 will connect to the port side of the Unity Node and will provide room for many of the station's life support systems, in the form of eight refrigerator-sized racks. After Node 3 is installed, the station's crew will transfer over many of the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) currently stored in various places around the station.'"
I know we aren't meant to complain about missing poll options; but battletoad anyone?!
TBH.
Vista is in the top 10 suggestions... draw what conclusions you will from that...
They are going to name their life support after an unreliable piece of go-se?
How can a poll be without CowboyNeal? BOYCOTT NASA!!!11!1
Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
"My tax dollars at work"
1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
This is about the ISS; not the tool bag.
Ba dum dum cha!
And let's see if they will name it "Cuntflaps".
NASA is holding a contest to name ISS Node 3. Being a Browncoat myself, I should hope that the choice of names would be obvious.
Dookie? Turdburgular? Stinky?
I think browncoat means different things to you and I.
Wow, Nasa /.'ed
We're interrogating Mr. Malda now.
Thanks,
No Such Agency.
My blog
Maybe to sway the public perception of NASA from being a overly-technical, bloated government agency out of reach to the common man to a user-friendly, warm-and-fuzzy entity people can feel good about funding with public funds, how about "NASA Bob". Maybe draw a pair of glasses and a smile on it with a sharpie...
Founder, Americans Allied Against Alliteration
According to the web page its is a Urine Processor Assembly Atmosphere Revitalization System entity.
Uparse would reflect the nature of sharing as the ars is being offered by another body, a body that has yet to be explored.
Space Junk One?
goal to chase
goal to chase
goatse
I have decoded your secret message. Name the ISS module 'goatse.' Your will is my command.
Help fight poverty: Punch a poor person.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.... ;)
Please consider this account deleted, I just can't be bothered with the spam anymore.
That's ok, CmdrTaco has always wanted to meet James Earl Jones and blackmail a Winnebago out of him ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I believe the official spelling is gou shi.
I voted Serenity, but had second thoughts once I saw "Xenu" in the top suggestions. That would be just grand.
On third thought though, we probably don't want to piss Mr. Cruise off. He may decide to fly up there and start beating on ISS with a crowbar or something.
"Being a Browncoat myself, I should hope that the choice of names would be obvious. "
Yes, but naming it Ernst Roehm would involve Godwin's Law every time somebody tried to discuss the craft.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
With a big kitchen...
Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
If they do pick Serenity, would the possible next one be Tranquility?
Or is that already in use, and I'm just ignorant?
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even to a normal person who's never heard of Firefly
Normal people didn't watch firefly? Then what am... Nevermind.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.